On All Levels Except Physical, I am a Wolf

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“On All Levels Except Physical, I am a Wolf” is a memorable quote from a documentary about otherkin in which a teenage boy explains how he identifies as a wolf animal. The scene subsequently inspired a two-pane exploitable series, with various superimposed characters expressing aspects of their identity with the phrasal template“On all levels except physical, I am X.”

Origin

On April 23rd, 2011, the television network Logo TV broadcast the documentary What? I Think I’m an Animal, featuring interviews with teenagers who believe their physical human bodies do not reflect their spiritual animal identifies. In the film, teenager Matthew Schimmel states that “On all levels except physical, I am a wolf”, followed by a scene in which he is shown barking while looking over a body of water. On May 3rd, 2013, the documentary was posted on the Cringe Channel Forums^[3] by user Ahlstrom, who highlighted Shimmel’s quote.

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On August 20th, 2014, Redditor SpeedyCZ submited a two-pane image of Schimmel’s scene from the film to /r/payday,^[2] featuring the mask of the character Wolf from the first person shooter game Payday (shown below).

On December 14th, YouTuber Alfred84 uploaded a clip of Schimmel’s scene from the documentary, gaining over 600,000 under four months. On December 19th, the video was highlighted on /r/videos,^[4] where it received more than 3,000 votes (89% upvoted) and 1,000 comments in three months.

On January 18th, 2015, FunnyJunk^[7] user applecooler posted a two-pane exploitable featuring the Tunnel Snakes gang member from the 2008 role-playing video game Fallout 3, gaining over 1,400 upvotes in the next three months (shown below). On January 27th, FunnyJunk user britbong submitted several two-pane exploitable examples in a post titled “On All Level Except Physical.”